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Vine ingenues, YouTube megastars, hip-pop sensations, and best friends Jack & Jack share their own brand of irreverent comedy, on-point style, and heartfelt life advice. Nebraska natives Jack Gilinsky and Jack Johnson shot to instant fame after their first Vine, "Nerd Vandals," was dubbed "a perfect Vine" by the Huffington Post. It's been looped more than ten million times since, and that Vine was just the beginning.

A candid, tough, and stirring memoir of a young person in search of an authentic self as her family and home life devolve into chaos.

Both a tomboy and a late bloomer, Jessi Klein grew up feeling like an observer rather than a participant in the rites of modern femininity. This is a funny collection of real-life stories in which Klein explores the milestones of the twenty-first-century woman.

Paige Rawl has been HIV positive since birth but never felt like her illness defined her. One day in middle school, she disclosed her secret to a friend and the bullying began. One night, desperate for escape, Paige swallowed fifteen sleeping pills. But that wasn't the end of her story.

Using information from newly-declassified intelligence files and recovered military history, journalist Andrea Pitzer argues that far from being a proponent of art for art's sake, Vladimir Nabokov managed to hide disturbing history in his fiction--history that has gone unnoticed for decades.

His childhood was a recipe for disaster, yet as he approaches his thirtieth birthday, William is as well-balanced and sane a man as you could ever hope to meet. He has an utter determination to do the right thing and to serve his country as his grandmother has so successfully done for the last sixty years.

Errol Ranville has been running all his life: from chronic poverty and racism in rural Manitoba; a discriminatory music business; alcohol and drug addiction; and the responsibilities that come with being regarded as a role model. Though Errol has faced seemingly insurmountable barriers as an Indigenous performer in a predominately white music business, his band C-Weed & the Weeds released several #1 songs and went on to score JUNO nominations in 1985 and 1986. Errol was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Indigenous Music Awards in 2011.

Mary Louise (née Bangs) Rockthunder, / wêpanâkit, was an Elder of Cree, Saulteaux, and Nakoda descent. Born in 1913, raised and married at nehiyawipwatinahk / Piapot First Nation, Mary Louise, a much-loved storyteller, speaks of her memories, stories, and knowledge, revealing her personal humility and her deep love and respect for her family and her / nêhiyawêwin / language and culture. The recordings that are transcribed, edited, and translated for this book are presented in three forms: Cree syllabics, standard roman orthography (SRO) for Cree, and English.

"Lovely art comes with unusual perspectives on familiar tales about lions, mice and trickster foxes." - Kirkus, starred review "Many children are familiar with Aesop's fables but it is a fair bet that few know much about the storyteller himself...(a) beautiful volume." - Wall Street Journal Honoring the path of a slave, this dramatic picture-book biography and concise anthology of Aesop's most child-friendly fables tells how a child born into slavery in ancient Greece found a way to speak out against injustice by using the skill and wit of his storytelling-storytelling that has survived for

Amanda Kloots reflects on love, loss, and life with her husband, Broadway star and Tony nominee Nick Cordero, whose public battle with Covid-19 and tragic death made headlines around the world.